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Views of medical residents on a research training program: a qualitative study
Elie A. Akl
American University of Beirut Medical Center
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Background
The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) developed the Fellowship and Residency Research Program (FRRP) to provide residents and clinical fellows with a supervised and structured research experience.
Objective
To explore the views of FRRP participants about the training program and how to enhance it.
Methods
We conducted a qualitative study targeting residents in one of the post-graduate training programs at AUBMC. We invited potential participants through email and via snowball sampling. We continued the data collection until we reached data saturation. We used a thematic analysis to identify emerging themes.
Results
Four themes emerged from the content analysis: expectations of residents, coordination, mentorship, and capacity building. Residents expected the FRRP to provide them with capacity building activities in conducting research since they perceived themselves as novice researchers. In terms of coordination, few residents complained that the deadlines to submit the deliverables are not evenly distributed across the years, so they suggested moving the deadlines earlier to give more time to address any challenges. In terms of mentorship, participants appreciated the flexibility in choosing the mentor and the ability to choose their own research question in agreement with their mentor, however, they thought that there were few faculty members who conducted research and some lacked commitment due to either being busy or travelling, resulting in the slowing of their progress. In terms of capacity building activities, the participants found the lecture series, both real time and virtual, to be helpful and they were satisfied with the topics of the lectures. Finally, participants pointed out that the FRRP program is very supportive and most of them thought it should be mandatory.
Conclusion
In order to provide residents and clinical fellows with a supervised and structured research experience, we have built on our findings to introduce several changes to our program such as ensuring the availability and commitment of faculty mentors, providing capacity building activities to the program participants and revising the program educational offerings to better cover the ABCs of research using mostly interactive and hands on sessions.
Keywords
Medical residents, research training, mentorship, capacity building, graduate medical education
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Views of medical residents on a research training program: a qualitative study
Elie A. Akl
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Corresponding Author
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Background
The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) developed the Fellowship and Residency Research Program (FRRP) to provide residents and clinical fellows with a supervised and structured research experience.
Objective
To explore the views of FRRP participants about the training program and how to enhance it.
Methods
We conducted a qualitative study targeting residents in one of the post-graduate training programs at AUBMC. We invited potential participants through email and via snowball sampling. We continued the data collection until we reached data saturation. We used a thematic analysis to identify emerging themes.
Results
Four themes emerged from the content analysis: expectations of residents, coordination, mentorship, and capacity building. Residents expected the FRRP to provide them with capacity building activities in conducting research since they perceived themselves as novice researchers. In terms of coordination, few residents complained that the deadlines to submit the deliverables are not evenly distributed across the years, so they suggested moving the deadlines earlier to give more time to address any challenges. In terms of mentorship, participants appreciated the flexibility in choosing the mentor and the ability to choose their own research question in agreement with their mentor, however, they thought that there were few faculty members who conducted research and some lacked commitment due to either being busy or travelling, resulting in the slowing of their progress. In terms of capacity building activities, the participants found the lecture series, both real time and virtual, to be helpful and they were satisfied with the topics of the lectures. Finally, participants pointed out that the FRRP program is very supportive and most of them thought it should be mandatory.
Conclusion
In order to provide residents and clinical fellows with a supervised and structured research experience, we have built on our findings to introduce several changes to our program such as ensuring the availability and commitment of faculty mentors, providing capacity building activities to the program participants and revising the program educational offerings to better cover the ABCs of research using mostly interactive and hands on sessions.
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